All of us, regardless of age, should be able to buy our own insurance that meets our needs.

True but what frustrates me is that actually many of us did not have to pay the full cost since employers provided it as a benefit of employment. That is now going away since the feds have screwed things up.

It is ludicrous for the feds to be lecturing anyone about keeping costs down when the cost of government is skyrocketing and the cost of health care and health care insurance is skyrocketing due to government interference.

Ultimately they need to let the patient decide what is value of cost is. The only thing doctors need to do is educate the patent on the value of each product & service vs alternatives.

Doctors may not want to be in this position. If they don’t they could alternatively sell the whole package. Charge the patent a standard rates(Like their own insurance plan) and decide themselves what they need to figure out whats going on. (This may be the way to go.)
Another way is to just sell their individual service and let the patent contract with whatever else they need. In other-words the doctor acts as a consultant.

Beyond solving compact medical problems among specialist I don’t see the need for doctors to collectivize, that just reduces the possibility of competition further.

Yea that seemed a bit nutty to me as well. along with the Standardized practices one.

If your going to see a doctor then he should proceed based upon symptoms. In any-event the cost of his individual services are not the driving factor in the cost of healthcare. The driving force in the cost of healthcare is everything else namely insurance Government & otherwise which removes price selection from the system.

Without price selection all aspects of the service can cost almost as much as they want and so their costs have no where to go but up as fast as they can.

Docs Told They Must Drive Health System Change >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yeah Right.

Since when do doctors want to give away all their professional freedom and billing power to a liberal fascist system of faulty health care and death panels?

Look what happened in Canada. Now doctors there are nothing but vicarious civil servants paid by the government, with salary caps and dictatorial guidelines on service, designed to minimize cost, and Canadian health care comprises 55% of the federal governments budget in Canada. This linmits even the size of the Canadian Armed forces to a paltry 100, 000 individuals, so that the nation cannot even preserve its sovereignty from the Russians in the North.

“While talking to my dermo a couple of weeks ago, I was told that since they are being forced to upgrade/digitize just about everything there would be less hours available for actually seeing and treating patients.”

Yes. It is mandated by the government. There are significant penalties for not ‘upgrading’ to a fully electronic medical record. A big hunk of the time in the office now is spent at a computer, clicking off mandatory ‘boxes’ (e.g. “I reviewed the social history”), and not actually face to face interaction with the patient. It's a nightmare.

This will probably lead to fewer folks seeking medical attention. This whole ball of wax is getting bigger and bigger like the proverbial snowball rolling down hill. My dermo was NOT happy with it at all. But, mandated it is so compliance will follow. Even if the bill had been presented during the 48 hours prior to the vote, nobody’s staff would have been large enough to have sifted through the entire thing. Even if they had they couldn’t have made heads or tails of it. We still don’t know all the implications and the unintended(?) consequences.

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posted on 04/14/2013 7:14:48 AM PDT
by rktman
(BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))

It seems that they are implementing more of the evil that the progressives like to tell us are the flaws of the capitalist system. This is a good example of the capitalist system being cheaper and providing people with far more than the collective system.

What I see is a lot of poor people who come into the doctor for every tiny reason they can think of — why? Because they’re BORED. And the reasons they come in would just leave you scratching your head.

Oh, and they get prescriptions ...but a lot of times they will just refuse to take them either outright or as prescribed, and come back in the next week complaining of the same problem. It’s like dealing with a never ending army of morons. But they don’t care ...THEY’RE NOT PAYING FOR IT! Oh, and they definitely do NOT take care of their health in any way — they smoke, overeat, don’t exercise ...all of the usual.

This is how OC is going to be ....they are going to come in, sit in a never ending line in waiting rooms, making everyone sick around them, and they will just come back the next week, and the next week ... over and over. And everyone will be stuck paying for this nonsense.

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